She Opened the Door: Historical Highlights Since 2017

• Sunday, February 25, 2024: The New York Historical Society Tour with Anna Danzinger Halperin ’06BC,’12GSAS,’13GSAS,’18GSAS took place on Sunday, February 25, 2024, with a private tour of one of the fascinating new exhibitions, “Women’s Work.” The exhibition showcases 45 objects “to demonstrate that women’s work has been essential to American society and is inherently political: Women’s work is everywhere.” Anna Danzinger Halperin ’06BC,’12GSAS,’13GSAS,’18GSAS, Associate Director of the Center for Women’s History at the NYHS, led the tour. After the tour, Anna discussed her scholarly research, particularly in child care, and led attendees in a conversation about the critical issues and challenges women have faced in the workplace. 
• March 2, 2024: She Opened the Door hosted a one-day conference titled Empowering Women to Lead Healthy Lives. It featured keynote sessions and panels focused on longevity, reproductive and fertility, health equity, well-being, and social connectedness. In addition to gaining insights from prominent individuals committed to the advancement of women's well-being both at Columbia and beyond, conference attendees were also given the unique opportunity to connect and network with women and affiliates from across the University.
• June 2024: After a nearly four-year commitment, Ana Rodriguez '86SEAS, '88SEAS, and Francine Glick '77BC have decided to step down from their Co-Chair roles after a very successful tenure. Cassandra Ziegler '17TC, '24SIPA, and Kate Konecny Pope 13SPS are announced as SOTD’s new leadership CO-Chairs.
• March 10, 2023: She Opened the Door: Storytelling and the Art of Finding a Story. In honor of the upcoming Women’s History Month, Laurie Gwen Shapiro will share her methodology behind finding lost stories about women and their accomplishments, including women who share incredible connections to Columbia University, like Amelia Earhart and Winifred Edgerton Merrill.
• November 2, 2022: The Medical Perspective: A Conversation with Faye Wattleton on the Overturning of Roe V. Wade.
• April 30, 2022: She Opened the Door… to Entrepreneurship, taking place on campus, this was an informative day with Columbia women entrepreneurs.
• March 30, 2022: Columbia at Home Series | Columbia Women Leading in the World of Wine.
• October 19, 2022: She Opened the Door Presents: The Entrepreneurship Essentials with Barbara Roberts.
• December 8, 2021: Documenting Women: A Conversation with Betsy West and Julie Cohen.
• April 28, 2021: She Opened the Door | Creating A Powerful Brand for Career Success.
• March 3, 2021: She Opened the Door Presents: Cocktails & Cooking with STYLE!
• April 2020: Ana Rodriguez and Francine Glick officially transition as the new Co-Chairs of the Alumnae Leadership Group succeeding Kathleen Crowley and Teresa Saputo Crerend. 
• April 7, 2020: She Opened the Door Alumnae Digital Networking Hour (Online).
• February 9, 2020: More than 600 members of the Columbia community came together for She Opened the Door 2020, a day of inspiring programming that celebrated 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote.
• 2020: Ana Rodriguez and Francine Glick are nominated as Co-Chairs of the SOTD 2020 Conference Planning Committee. 
• November 15, 2019: Panel Discussion (Atlanta) Featuring Jovita Moore '90JRN, Rickey Bevington '01BC, Roxann Smithers '99CC '02LAW, Edvige Jean-Francois '91JRN.
• November 2, 2019: RBG Exhibit Tour at National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadelphia).
• October 15, 2019: From Farms to Incubators: Telling the Stories of Women Entrepreneurs in Agtech (NYC).
• October 3, 2019: Women Entrepreneurs, Parity & Inclusion: A Conversation with Sallie Krawcheck '92BUS (DC).
• June 20, 2019: LinkedIn Networking Night (NYC): Networking reception and LinkedIn best practice-sharing by Lauren Mack '06JRN and Vyju Manian '87SEAS.
• May 9, 2019: Conversation with Maryam Banikarim '89BC, '93SIPA, '93BUS (LA).
• May 1, 2019: What the Constitution Means to Me Viewing (NYC): Theater outing and talkback with Producers Jon Bierman '83SOA, Aaron Glick (SOA Theatre Fellow), Rachel Sussman (SOA Theatre Fellow), and General Manager Danielle Karliner '13SOA.
• April 24, 2019: Writing the Balance (DC): Amy Padnani, creator of The New York Times “Overlooked” spoke on how women across disciplines are fighting for gender equality by revising history’s dominant narratives.
• March 13, 2019: On the Basis of Sex Screening (Sweden): Screening of the biographical legal drama film is based on the life of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59LAW.
• March 5, 2019: A Conversation with Ursula Burns '82SEAS and Mary Boyce (NYC): Watch the discussion between Boyce, the dean of Columbia Engineering and Burns, the CEO of VEON.
• March 2, 2019: Panel Discussion (Singapore): AWARE's Corinna Lim '99SIPA, Disney's Jessica Pouleur, and CXA's Rosaline Koo '88BUS shared stories of who has empowered and opened the door for them.
• Jan. 28, 2019: Networking Night (NYC): Roundtable student-alumnae networking and discussions on networking best practices.
• Oct. 11, 2018: Gloria: A Life (NYC): Viewing and talkback with Director Diane Paulus '97SOA.
• May 5, 2018: RBG Documentary Screening (NYC): Viewing and talkback with the film's director Betsy West, a Columbia Journalism School professor.
• February 9-11, 2018: More than 1,000 Columbia alumnae, faculty, students, and staff gathered on the Morningside campus for She Opened the Door, the first University-wide women's conference.
• 2017: Kathleen Crowley and Teresa Saputo Crerend are nominated as the first Co-Chairs of the Alumnae Leadership Group.